Age and skilled performance: Contributions of working memory and processing speed

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 242-256

  Brigman, Susan ^a   Cherry, Katie E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Alphabet arithmetic task; Automaticity; Cognitive processing speed; Learning; Skill acquisition; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUTOMATISM; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0036921887     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-2626(02)00510-9     Document Type: Article

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